Your "One-Hit Wonder" Artists

johnny wrote: Scarlet Fantastic - No Memory

I'd totally forgotten about that song, I'm going to download it right this minute!

Chris Nash wrote: Sorry John:

Icicle Works:

Cauldron Of Love Love Is A Wonderful Colour Hollow Horse Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream) Understanding Jane

All in the Top 100, which is classified as a 'hit' in the UK charts.

Can you tell I worked in record shops in the 1980s?

i was going to have 'love is a wonderful colour', but i knew nash would be all over me like a moss.

God this is getting sad

New Musik - 'Living By Numbers'

Sultans of Ping FC - Wheres me Jumper?

a modern classic.

Burt Reynolds wrote: Wheres me Jumper?

This should be on the questions that keep you awake all night thread, no?

Snorri xxx

Snorrimon wrote:

Burt Reynolds wrote: Wheres me Jumper?

This should be on the questions that keep you awake all night thread, no?

Snorri xxx

no.. that's

'Where's me footpump?'

Carl Douglas "Kung Fu Fighting" and Trio's "Da Da Da"

(Quality tuneage)!

The Sub-Cultured Perfect Kisser*!* wrote:

But then, some artists really have ONLY ONE GOOD HIT/TRACK. Here's my short list:

1. EMF - Unbelievable (I love this track, but then the rest of Schubert Dip album suck. Never bothered to listen/buy the other releases after it.)

2. Spacehog - In The Meantime (just like EMF, I bought it's debut album (Resident Alien) because I love the first single, only to find out later that it was the only track that appealed to me.)

Indeed!

Oh yeah...these two tracks are stil good today. Sorry to quote you but it's just I was thinking about the same one-hit wonders songs:)

I remember hearing somewhere at the time Radiohead and Beck about becoming one hit wonders with Creep and Loser the journalists who said that are probably unemployed by now

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AgentWood wrote: alphaville--forever young sixpence none the richer--kiss me (shut up. i like the song.) whoever it was that sang tarzan boy new radicals--you get what you give

tarzan boy was/by BALTIMORA [ :rip: ]

Since yesterday is not only a brilliant one hit wonder but quite possibly the most perfect pop song of the 1980s.

mediamark wrote: Since yesterday is not only a brilliant one hit wonder but quite possibly the most perfect pop song of the 1980s.

will you marry me?

well that was a thread killer!

Never heard of Stan Ridgeway after this one:

I was a P.F.C. on a search patrol, huntin' Charlie down It was in the jungle wars of '65 My weapon jammed and I got stuck way out and all alone And I could hear the enemy movin' in close outside Just then I heard a twig snap and I grabbed my empty gun And I dug in scared while I counted down my fate And then a big Marine––a giant, with a pair of friendly eyes–– Appeared there at my shoulder and said "Wait."

When he came in close beside me, he said "Don't worry, son, I'm here–– If Charlie wants to tangle now, he'll have two to dodge" I said, "Well, thanks a lot!" I told him my name and asked him his And he said "The boys just call me Camouflage"

Chorus: Woah-oh-oh-oh, Camouflage Things are never quite the way they seem Woah-oh-oh-oh, Camouflage I was awfully glad to see this big Marine

Well, I was gonna ask him where he came from, when we heard the bullets fly Comin' through the brush, and all around our ears It was then I saw this big Marine light a fire in his eye And it was strange, but suddenly, I forgot my fears

Well, we fought all night, side by side, we took our battle stance And I wondered how the bullets missed this man 'Cause they seemed to go right through him––just as if he wasn't there And in the mornin' we both took a chance and ran And it was near the riverbank when the ambush came on top of us And I thought it was the end, and we were had Then a bullet with my name on it came buzzin' through a bush And that big Marine, he just swat it with his hand Just like it was a fly...

Chorus: Woah-oh-oh-oh, Camouflage Things are never quite the way they seem Woah-oh-oh-oh, Camouflage This was an awfully strange (big) Marine

{spoken} And I knew there was somethin' weird about him, 'Cause when I turned around, He was pullin' a big palm tree up outta the ground And swattin' those Charlies with it from here to kingdom come

When he led me outta danger I saw my camp and waved goodbye He just winked at me from the jungle and then was gone When I got back to my H.Q., I told 'em about my night And the battle I'd spent with a big Marine named Camouflage When I said his name, the soldier gulped, and a medic took my arm And led me to a green tent on the right He said "You may be tellin' true, boy, but this here is Camouflage And he's been right here since he passed away last night In fact, he's been here all week long... But before he went, he said Semper Fi, and said his only wish Was to save a young Marine caught in a barrage So here, take his dog tag, son, I know he'd want you to have it now" And we both said a prayer for a big Marine named Camouflage

Chorus repeat

So next time you're in a jungle fight, and you feel a presence near Or hear a voice that in your mind will lodge Just be thankful that you're not alone––you've got some company From a big Marine the boys call Camouflage

Chorus repeat x2

Hup, hey-ho, hey, left... left... Woah, woah, Camouflage Hey, hey-ho, ho, left... left... Woah, woah, Camouflage repeat endlessly until fade...

That's an absolute classic, Rev. I always used to associate it with Love Vigilantes for some reason.

I couldn't get Camoflage out if my head for several days after Summercase '05.

Reverend Big wrote:

I couldn't get Camoflage out if my head for several days after Summercase '05.

Well he was an awfully big marine

Soft Cell -- Tainted Love A-Ha -- Take on Me (Although these two artists had more European hits). CeCe Peniston -- Finally Rockell -- In My dreams

Black - Wonderful Life

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

AgentWood wrote:

sixpence none the richer--kiss me (shut up. i like the song.)

They had another couple of "hits" after that one...I know, it's gay as can be, but I liked them too...then I found out they were a "ahem" "Christian Contemporary Band"....

plus, she also got her tits out for Playboy at one point...not that I've ever seen the pictures...

they also covered"There She Goes", wonder if they knew it was about.........

The tiffany pics were a typical airbrushed affair, I'll say, but I haven't seen 'em in years.

New Order - Blue Monday:D

That Scatman John song (don't remember the exact title)

(If Paradise is) Half as Nice - Amen Corner